Two medals and fourth place in weightlifting

On the 11th competitive day of the Olympic Games, 26 sets of medals were played, but basically the fight for them took place without the participation of Russians. Domestic athletes limited themselves to gold in Greco-Roman wrestling, where Musa Yevloyev excelled in the category up to 97 kilograms, as well as a medal in artistic gymnastics. Nikita Nagorny became the bronze medalist in exercises on the crossbar, losing only to Croatian Tin Srbich and Japanese Daiki Hashimoto. At the same time, boxers Muslim Gadzhimagomedov and Albert Batyrgaziev, who made their way to the finals of the tournament in the heavy and featherweight divisions, respectively, guaranteed themselves silver awards today. Gabil Mammadov, who was eliminated already at the quarter-finals stage, could not keep them company.

It is worth noting that Yevloyev and Nagorny are not the only representatives of the country in their sports who had a chance to bring medals to the national team's piggy bank. In the division up to 67 kilograms, Artyom Surkov lost to Ukrainian Parviz Nasibov in the quarterfinals, and the representative of the category up to 62 kilograms Lyubov Ovcharova stumbled already in 1/8. There she could not compete with the Japanese woman Yukako Kawai. As for artistic gymnastics, in the exercises on the uneven bars, the bronze medalist of the Games in Rio de Janeiro in this type of program, David Belyavsky, claimed to be in the top three, but this time he became only fifth. In turn, Vladislava Urazova took the last, eighth place in the balance beam exercises, gaining 1.9 points less than the winner, the Chinese woman Chenchen Guan.

Until recently, weightlifter Timur Naniev, who is performing in the category of up to 109 kilograms, fought for getting on the podium, but in the end he settled down a step away from him. The Russian showed the result of 409 kilograms, losing only one kilogram to the Latvian Arturs Plesnieks. The Armenian Simon Martirosyan and the Uzbek Akbar Dzhuraev ranked higher, with the former simultaneously setting a record for the Games in snatch (195), and the latter in clean and jerk (237) and total (430).

Diver Yevgeny Kuznetsov also had chances for a medal.

He confidently overcame the barrier of the preliminary round, but in the final he flunked the beginning of the program, and was able to recover only by the fifth jump.

Subsequently, he did not fall below the bar of 81 points, and for the last attempt he received 91.2 at all, but this was not enough even to fight for bronze.

The Russian became the fifth (461.9), and the lag behind the Chinese Siye Xie was a whopping 96.85 points.

Synchronized swimmers 'confidence and canoeists' failures

Track cyclists could also compete for awards, but they failed to support the initiative of Daria Shmeleva and Anastasia Voinova.

The national team consisting of Denis Dmitriev, Alexander Dubchenko, Ivan Gladyshev and Pavel Yakushevsky took only the sixth line in qualification, after which they lost to Australia and lost the chances for bronze.

Among other things, another competitive day in the cycle track was remembered for the incident with the participation of British athletes.

In the preliminary round, they covered the distance with the best time in history (4 minutes 6.748 seconds) and were so happy that they themselves provoked a blockage.

One of the girls got so carried away, congratulating one partner, that she bumped into another.

Perhaps this was the reason for the not very successful performance in the final and the defeat from the German women, who took away not only gold, but also the title of world record holder (4: 04,242).

Domestic kayakers also failed.

They could not make it to the main final either alone or in doubles.

At the same time, stability is striking.

Anna Chernigovskaya finished seventh at a distance of 200 meters, Maxim Spesivtsev - at 1000 meters, and Varvara Baranova and Kira Stepanova - at 500 meters.

After that, everyone had to take part in consolation races, but even there everything turned out far from ideal.

Baranova and Stepanova showed the worst result, while Spesivtsev finished fifth.

Chernigovskaya was luckier and took the second place, behind only Teresa Portelo from Portugal.

In addition, the final B and the doubles competition at a distance of 1000 meters took place, where the Russians Vladislav Chebotar and Viktor Melantyev became the best.

The Russian climber Alexei Rubtsov also failed to make it to the all-around final.

This was due to failures in two disciplines at once - "speed" and "difficulty", in which he showed only 16th and 15th results.

In "bouldering" he became the fourth, but the overall picture did not change much.

As a result - only 13th position.

Domestic fans were also extremely disappointed in sailing.

In class 470, Pavel Sozykin and Denis Gribanov could not qualify for the medal race.

According to the results of ten races, they could not get into the top 10, being located on the 12th line.

But the preliminary round without any problems overcame the Russian synchronized swimmers.

Svetlana Kolesnichenko and Svetlana Romashina were excellent in the technical program and scored 195.0079 points, more than three points ahead of the closest pursuers - Chinese women Xuechen Huang and Wenyan Sun.

🚴‍♀️ In the team race, the Britons broke the world record, but something went wrong during the celebration.

Ouch, it's unpleasant 😬



But the girls really hurt after a couple of minutes when their result was surpassed by the German women 😏 pic.twitter.com/HrLwAe0MSm

- Match TV (@MatchTV) August 3, 2021

Another Dream Team victory and the third Brazilian final in football

In the team competition, the Russian national team did not fail.

Volleyball players, albeit not without difficulty, but still beat the Canadians in the quarterfinals and made their way to the next stage.

Yes, the score 3: 0 indicates the superiority of Tuomas Sammelvuo's charges, but at the same time, a tense struggle was waged in each set.

This is confirmed by the fact that the national team won only nine points more than their counterpart.

Next, he will meet with Brazil, which also broke the resistance of the hosts of the Games in three games.

The Russian water polo players also made it to the semifinals.

For most of the match with Australia, they had a solid advantage, which reached four points, but they could not do without hassle.

In the final quarter, the rivals reduced the gap to a minimum, but they were not destined to equalize the score - 8: 9.

For reaching the decisive stage of the tournament, they will fight with the Americans.

Among other things, the semi-finalists in the basketball tournament became known.

Ricky Rubio's 38 points did not save Spain from defeat in the match against the USA (81:95), led by two-time NBA champion Kevin Durant.

That evening, the Brooklyn striker chalked up 29 points, having realized 59% of the shots from the field.

For reaching the final, the Americans will fight the Australians, who defeated the Argentines (97:59), and Slovenia and France will converge in a parallel meeting.

Meanwhile, in football, the participants in the final match have already been determined.

In it, the Brazilian national team will play for the third time in a row, having beaten Mexico only on penalties in the semifinals (4: 1).

And the Spanish team will oppose it.

The "Red Fury" again failed to resolve all issues in regular time and was forced to spend an additional 30 minutes in a meeting with Japan.

Real Madrid midfielder Marco Asensio scored the only and winning goal.

As for the women's final, the participants are also known - the teams of Sweden and Canada will compete for gold.

And today it became known that the Russian referee Anastasia Pustovoitova will serve the match.

According to the International Football Federation, her assistants will be compatriot Ekaterina Kurochkina and Croatian Sanya Rodak, and Salima Mukansanga from Rwanda will be the reserve judge.

Shubenkov's injury and Warholm's record

The competitive day in athletics turned out to be a busy one.

But for the Russian fans, the main event was the incident with Sergei Shubenkov.

The 30-year-old athlete was one of the country's main hopes, but in fact repeated the fate of the long jumper Daria Klishina.

He was injured warm up and was unable to qualify for the 110 meter hurdles.

“He has had this problem with his leg for a long time.

We were treated, tried ... Now I ran during the warm-up - and that's it ... Something clicked.

Now the leg is in ice.

We wait.

In a chair, we will go to the center to do an ultrasound scan.

Achilles seems to be whole.

What clicked is not clear.

But he is in great pain, "- said the runner's mentor Sergei Klevtsov" Sport-Express ".

Subsequently, the diagnosis was voiced by Shubenkov himself.

According to him, we are talking about a tear in the Achilles tendon.

“In Novogorsk, my chronic tendinitis worsened. I went to the Games, because the inflammation was removed, and the pain receded every day. All professional athletes have chronic sores, and the same sluggish tendenitis did not prevent me from running either 12.92 in 2018 or 13.19 on July 7 in Hungary ... The application for the Olympic top ten closed on June 28, and changes have been made since then it was impossible. Then my legs did not hurt at all. The year turned out to be rich in adventure. I will take a pause for now, rest, recover - and again into battle, "Shubenkov wrote on Instagram.

At the same time, Elaine Thompson continues to dominate sprinting. The Jamaican native won gold in the 200m race and became a four-time Games champion, repeating her own individual performance at the Rio Olympics. Then she also became the strongest one hundred meters. True, in Brazil, she also took silver in the 4 × 100 meters relay. In turn, American Esing Mu finished first in the 800-meter race.

Another world record was set in the 400 meters hurdles.

It took Karsten Warholm 45.94 seconds to cover the entire distance.

Thus, the Norwegian by more than 0.7 seconds surpassed his own achievement set in July (46.70).

Among other things, the champions in the high jump for men and the hammer throw for women were determined.

In the first type of the program, the victory was won by the Swede Arman Duplantis (6.02 meters), in the second - by the Pole Anita Wlodarczyk (78.48 meters).

Investigation of the Saunders case and the suspension of the Georgian athlete

The 11th competitive day of the Games was not without a couple of scandals. So, one of them flared up two days ago, but only now has been developed. Silver medalist in shot put Raven Saunders showed a curious gesture during the awards ceremony. The American woman crossed her arms and raised them above her head. She later commented on her action on social networks, noting that it was addressed in support of the LGBT community, blacks, and people with mental disorders. Nevertheless, the International Olympic Committee does not intend to disregard such behavior of the girl and is planning to investigate this incident. This was stated by the head of the IOC press service, Mark Adams.

But if the case with Saunders is just waiting to be studied, then the question of the performance of the Greek synchronized swimmers at the Tokyo Games is over.

As reported in the NOC of the country, the national team in this sport was ordered to leave the Olympic village.

It is reported that the team has identified four cases of coronavirus.

Among other things, the Georgian shot putter Benik Abrahamyan will not be able to perform in Tokyo.

According to the International Doping Testing Agency (ITA), traces of steroid intake - dehydrochloromethyltestosterone and methandienone, as well as tamoxifen were found in the athlete's sample.

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